The York Guardian

It is hands down the place to be all summer. And when I say it's THE place to be all summer I mean that, literally and figuratively. With the multitude of street festivals going on there every weekend and the excessive amount of road construction, traffic there is at a virtual standstill from noon until midnight. My suggestion if you're planning on dropping by is to pitch a tent or, better yet, buy a home there or rent an apartment as soon as you arrive, because once you get there, you're there for good. There's no getting out.

Buses going east and west and north and south move at a snail's pace, only to be rerouted if they're lucky enough to make it to an intersection. And it's elbow to elbow on the streets and sidewalks every Saturday and Sunday with people doing the salsa, lambada, macarena, conga, limbo, you name it. You couldn't squeeze another body in there with a shoe horn if you tried.

Heck, there are still cars filled with revelers waving flags and honking horns from the Euro Cup, for heaven's sake.

And I'm talking Euro Cup 2004, not 2008. This chaos has not been lost on Hollywood.

Capitalizing on the ongoing congestion is a much ballyhooed brand new FOX reality TV series currently being shot on St. Clair called, So You Think You Can Make It From Christie Street To Caledonia Road.

They're less than halfway through the taping of the series and it is already generating some serious buzz within the industry. According to E-Blab Daily it is "More challenging than The Great Race Downtown Hong Kong At Rush Hour," and the New York Daily Sleaze says "It's more claustrophobic than Big Brother Manhattan Bachelor Apartment."

In short folks, it is said to have Emmy written all over it.

I'm not able to give away too much, but the producers have allowed me to provide you with this brief overview.

The combatants are 10, two-person teams and what they have to do is try and make it all the way from Christie to Caledonia, travelling only on weekends, beginning on Canada Day and ending Aug. 31.

It's a challenging 1.5-mile obstacle course and the winning duo gets the de rigueur $1 million. If none of the teams successfully complete the journey - and Vegas oddsmakers are saying that it's 100-1 that any of them will complete the arduous trek in time - the money goes back into the pot for So You Think You Can Make It From Christie Street To Caledonia Road II, slated for the summer of 2009, that is if there is room for the TV cameras to get in next year,

And get a load of the teams lined up for the inaugural series. It reads like a who's who of what's what in Canada:

Don Cherry and Enza The Supermodel; Ed The Sock and Ted Rogers, Ben Johnson and Dick Pound; Bryan McCabe and Cliff Fletcher; Pamela Anderson and Hazel McCallion; Ashlee and Ashleigh, Toronto Argonauts cheerleaders; Shania Twain and Mel Lastman; Mel Twain and Shania Lastman; William Shatner and Sue The Sex Lady; and the Fan 590's Stormin' Norman Rumack and Pinball Horowitz (yes, THAT Pinball Horowitz).

Wow. It doesn't get any better than that. Catch it on Fabulous Fox Fridays right after Fox's latest runaway hit, (insert anything here) With The Stars.